Essays Tagged: "Mathematician"

of science,literature, and ethics. These contributions have influenced the modern world today. Manymathematicians, astronomers, and scientists contributed to the development of many of theluxuries we ... r societytoday. Some of the major contributions from the Classical World is in the field of science.Mathematicians, astronomers, and scientists made important contributions that formedthe basic elemen ...

Greek literatureGREEK LITERATURE. The great British philosopher-mathematician Alfred North Whitehead once commented that all philosophy is but a footnote to Plato . ... dited with being the first person to measure the Earth's circumference.Much that was written by the mathematicians Euclid and Archimedes has been preserved. Euclid is known for his 'Elements', much of ...

n of many different talents. He knew several languages, including Latin and Greek. He was an expert mathematician who was even able to calculate when eclipses of the sun and moon would occur. He could ...

rsity as a medical student in 1581 and became aprofessor of mathematics at Padua. An astronomer and mathematician, Galileo was, unfortunately for himself, a man aheadof his time. Galileo discovered th ... discovered and enhanced many scientific discoveries of his time period and was highly regarded as a Mathematician andNatural Philosopher. Galileo was persecuted for his views on Earth's relationship w ...

blame. Near the end of the book, while the humans are fighting off the velociraptors, Malcolm (the mathematician) delivers a long and didactic speech about how science is to blame for messing up the ... ist graduate student assistant, Ellie Sattler; and also John Malcolm, a brilliant and idiosyncratic mathematician whose field of expertise is chaos theory, which deals with turbulence and unpredictabi ...

warm fire. We also find educated men, to represent the best of the Human Race. These men include a Mathematician, a Doctor and a Physician.The Time Traveller tells his story in dim light; he tells ho ...

essay made me pass summer school. I did expect this much from you.Gauss was a German scientist and mathematician. People call him thefounder of modern mathematics. He also worked in astronomy and phy ...

Gauss, Carl Friedrich (1777-1855). The German scientist and mathematician Gauss is frequently he was called the founder of modern mathematics. His work is astro ... s student. But it is often pointed out that at first Gauss was undecided whether he should become a mathematician or a philologist. The reason for this indecision was probably that humanists at that t ... his sleep. He was seventy-seven years old.BIBLIOGRAPHYGindikin, S.G., Stories about physicists and mathematicians, Russia, Moscow, 'Nauka', 1982 (in Russian).Hall, T., Carl Friedrich Gauss, The Massa ...

ng, he became so fed up with the idea that he mustered up the courage to beg his father to become a mathematician. Finally, just before entering college, his father let Georg study mathematics.In 1862 ... Berlin he studied mathematics, philosophy and physics. There he studied under some of the greatest mathematicians of the day including Kronecker and Weierstrass. After receiving his doctorate in 1867 ...

ng, he became so fed up with the idea that he mustered up the courage to beg his father to become a mathematician. Finally, just before entering college, his father let Georg study mathematics.In 1862 ... Berlin he studied mathematics, philosophy and physics. There he studied under some of the greatest mathematicians of the day including Kronecker and Weierstrass. After receiving his doctorate in 1867 ...

ings of action, reactions, thrill, nervousness, and their beliefs.Ian Malcolm, a very knowledgeable mathematician, decides to go to the island of Isla Nublar to observe the biological preserve that a ...

ned out to be extremely important to Hooke's future. Among these were the astronomer Seth Ward, the mathematician Lawrence Rooke, the inventor William Petty, the natural philosopher William Neile and ... intances left a particular mark on Hooke's life and his subsequent epistemic interests: that of the mathematician turned architect Christoper Wren, who became a lifelong friend, associate and object o ...

Lodovicus," then simplifying it with Lewis Carroll. He was an English writer, a photographer, and a mathematician. Carroll wrote Alice's Adventures in Wonderland in 1865,he then wrote Through The Look ...

on, and the appearance of Venus going through phase. Galileo was an Italian physicist, philosopher, mathematician, inventor, discoverer, and an astronomer.Galileo was the oldest son of Vincenzo Galile ...

The great British philosopher-mathematician Alfred North Whitehead once commented that all philosophy is but a footnote to Plato . ... ited with being the first person to measure the Earth's circumference. Much that was written by the mathematicians Euclid and Archimedes has been preserved. Euclid is known for his 'Elements', much of ...